as odd as it may sound, it feels like a privilege to go through it together in the way that we have seen it. It’s shifted into almost the orientation of blessing.

And that’s not to say that the difficulties are any easier. It doesn’t change the nature of hard things. They’re hard, but there’s something about life. There’s a truth. There’s something about going through the fire that is so required and something about suffering that is so essential.

This idea that we are meant to run from pain or run from difficult things and find the most leisurely and completely frictionless existence possible is such a lie. It’s not just a lie because it’s not possible, but if it were possible, that would kill you the most.